Can we go to the buffet and get dinner, Grandpa? Zack and David and I are really super hungry after playing by the pool all afternoon! Did you hear how Cailin and Grandma saw a dolphins next to the cruise ship this afternoon? Isn’t that cool? We were just talking about how this is the best reward for straight A’s you could ask for! Eighth grade was tough taking all those honors classes, but I just kept thinking about how fun this cruise was going to be.

Let’s Eat Grandpa.

Psst. Hey. Can we go talk in the back of the life-raft while Grandpa naps? Everyone—Zack, David, [...]

Did you know that when talking about the Praying Mantis, you can also saying "Preying" Mantis? Both are technically correct, but in America we tend to opt for “Praying” because of how their little hands/pincers seem to come together in prayer, while in other parts of the world they prefer “Preying” because of how these dudes eat the hell out of everything and each other, and thus it’s probably more realistic to characterize them by their hunger than it is to anthropormize them into tiny little church-goers. It’s essentially common knowledge that the female mantis will bite off and eat the head of the male mantis after they've mated [...]